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In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
Gary Snyder
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The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.
Sam Peckinpah
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Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.
Jacques Maritain
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You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.
Heidi Julavits
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The most important word in American, in Western culture, is "I."
Gene Simmons
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Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.
Damon Albarn
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I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
David Bowie
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The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.
Andre Bazin
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Scandals are the fertilizer of Western democracy.
Dario Fo
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Octavio Paz
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Every western I did and will do; I will do it for the never ending young kid inside of me.
Franco Nero
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Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.
Trevanian
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I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.
Bruce Boxleitner
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The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.
Kevin Costner
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I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.
Satyajit Ray
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I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
Daniel Goleman
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I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary, I have tried to convince my fellow citizens by citing the examples of highly effective local self-government systems in Switzerland and New England, both of which I saw first-hand.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.
Keith Carradine
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The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.
Huston Smith
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Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism
Nathan Rosenberg
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Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.
Lawrence Kasdan
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The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.
Bertrand Russell
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The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.
Azim Premji
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I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.
Katharine Whitehorn
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Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.
Zadie Smith
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I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.
Satyajit Ray
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I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.
Kiefer Sutherland
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But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses.
Julie Benz
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Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.
Sally Field
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Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.
Roberto Orci
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What [Russians] want to do is undermine the Western liberal order.
Daniel Fried
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I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union."
Arthur C. Clarke
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The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.
Peter Saunders
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You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
Deepak Chopra
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There's a big difference between the Arabic and Western scales. One uses quarter tone system and one doesn't. So in order for me to compose real Arabic scale melodies, I would need an Arabic keyboard, and I don't have one. So I had to compose Arabesque melodies.
Ayshay
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The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.
Sergio Aragones
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I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.
Bryan Brown
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All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
Rebecca West
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Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.
Ibn Warraq
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In general, the Western body has become a global brand.
Susie Orbach